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You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack. (Jeff Goodell)
One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up. View quote
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Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper. View quote
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Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change. View quote
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With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production. View quote
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When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy. View quote
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark. View quote
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For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs. View quote
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In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect. View quote
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Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there's one thing that even climate denialists don't dispute, dry things burn. View quote
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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. (Jeff Goodell)
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. View quote
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Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. View quote
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Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up. View quote
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Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal. View quote
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President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical. View quote
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Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing. View quote
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Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas. View quote
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Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. View quote
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The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution. View quote
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Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney. (Jeff Goodell)
If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil. View quote
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Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently. View quote
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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet. View quote
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In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. View quote
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